Our cinema-review site (horromovies and thrillers) has been running on WordPress for more than a decade and now holds several thousand articles. Age is starting to show in two areas: the admin dashboard has become painfully slow and parts of our original theme still carry legacy PHP that was never fully cleaned up. What I need • A thorough code audit focused on the admin side. Legacy files and functions should be refactored so that page loads, content uploads, and general navigation inside wp-admin feel snappy again. • Removal—or proper rewriting—of the early theme code. It “works” today, yet I know it could be far leaner and future-proof. Typical tools you might use—Query Monitor, WP-CLI, Lighthouse, object caching, or database optimizers—are all fine; feel free to bring your own preferred stack as long as the end result is faster execution and cleaner PHP. Next steps Send me a quick DM with your hourly rate and two or three similar WordPress refactor projects you’ve handled. I’ll reply with full site details, specific trouble spots, and staging credentials so you can scope the task precisely. I’m ready to start as soon as we agree on an approach and timeline. Thanks Raphael